Frank Calvelli joins Booz Allen Hamilton as Senior Vice President
Booz Allen Hamilton announced that Frank Calvelli, former Principal Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), will join the firm as a senior vice president …
Qrypt Quantum Data at Rest app offers secure data storage with one-time pad encryption
Qrypt unveiled its Quantum Data at Rest (QDAR) application. QDAR provides one-time pad encryption as a data-at-rest solution for companies to secure important files, …
Veeam Government Solutions: Backup and protection of government mission-critical data
Veeam Software announced the launch of its new, federal government-focused subsidiary, Veeam Government Solutions. Veeam provides a single platform for modernizing backup, …
Qrypt Cloud Entropy Portal secures cryptography through the cloud
Qrypt announced the launch of its Cloud Entropy Portal. This virtual EaaS solution provides fast access to high-quality Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) hardware. The …
How prepared is the intelligence community to tackle possible threats?
Human psychology is complex. It’s a dynamic and sometimes contradictory system. Compounding this problem is the rapid progress of technology and social media, toppling …
Jeremy Haas joins Sontiq as CTO
Sontiq announced the appointment of Jeremy Haas as chief technology officer (CTO). Haas, who brings a long-tenured career in cybersecurity research, product development and …
Vault 8: WikiLeaks starts releasing source code of alleged CIA cyber weapons
WikiLeaks is starting a new series of leaks, dubbed Vault 8, containing source code and materials allegedly stolen from the CIA. The Vault 8 leaks will ostensibly cover …
How the CIA gained access to air-gapped computers
A new WikiLeaks release of documents believed to have been stolen from the CIA show the intelligence agency’s capability to infect air-gapped computers and networks via …
How the CIA hacked wireless home routers
For many years, the CIA has had the capability to compromise a wide range of commercial wireless routers, and to monitor, control and manipulate the traffic passing through …
US intelligence chiefs don’t trust Kaspersky Lab software
The big question in Thursday’s intelligence hearing on worldwide threats before the US Senate Intelligence Committee was whether the Russian government interfered with …
Cisco patches leaked 0-day in 300+ of its switches
Cisco has plugged a critical security hole in over 300 of its switches, and is urging users to apply the patches as soon as possible because an exploit for it has been …
300+ Cisco switches affected by critical bug found in Vault 7 data dump
While combing through WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 data dump, Cisco has unearthed a critical vulnerability affecting 300+ of its switches and one gateway that could be exploited …